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F-12 | City of Pleasanton Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing • Housing Element Law (Government Code Section 65583) – this Housing Element documents compliance with Housing Element Law. F.4.2 Integration and Segregation This section analyzes integration and segregation, including patterns and trends, related to people with protected characteristics. Segregation Report An AFFH Segregation Report for Pleasanton was prepared by the University of California Merced Urban Policy Lab in cooperation with ABAG/MTC. Pleasanton’s Segregation Report reviews income and racial segregation and integration both between neighborhoods within Pleasanton, and across Bay Area jurisdictions. Some trends are described below, with full details available in Attachment 2 to this appendix. Additionally, Attachment 3 (the Alameda County AI) provides a history of segregation in Alameda County. Race and Ethnicity The Dissimilarity Index (DI) is a tool that measures segregation across a defined geographic boundary. DI ranges from 0 to 100 where 0 is perfect integration and 100 is complete segregation. 0 to 39 is considered low segregation. Segregation within Pleasanton falls in the “low” category between White and all other races (ranging from 16.4 to 30.6). Segregation in Pleasanton compared to the Bay Area is lower between White and Latinx (18.5 versus 20.7) and White and people of color (16.4 versus 16.8). However, segregation is higher compared to the Bay Area between White and Asian/Pacific Islander (20.5 versus 18.5) and between White and Black/African American (30.6 versus 24.4)3. As such, the DI indicates that 20.5% of all White (or Asian/Pacific Islander) residents would need to move to different neighborhoods to be completely integrated within the community. As detailed in Appendix A, Housing Needs Assessment, the percentage of residents in Pleasanton identifying as White has decreased significantly in the past decade, from 78 percent in 2000 to 50 percent in 2019 - accordingly the percentage of residents of all other races and ethnicities has increased4. The City’s most isolated racial group is White residents, as detailed in Pleasanton’s Segregation Report. The average White resident in Pleasanton lives in a neighborhood that is 45.7% White. Other racial groups are less isolated meaning they are more likely to encounter other racial groups in their neighborhoods. This is shown in Figure F-2 and F-3 below. Figure F-2 provides historical Non-White population percentages by block group from 2010 ACS data as 3 In Pleasanton, the Black/African American population is less than five percent. As such, the dissimilarity index is considered unreliable between White and Black/African American. 4 Data used in the housing needs assessment (Appendix A) uses an ABAG provided “safe harbor” data set. This differs from the information provided by the University of California Merced Urban Policy Lab used to calculate the DI.